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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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andatories,t6 use the latest word in the lexicon of inter-national politics, is yet to be determined. But,no matter what theeventual form of govern-ment, Western Asia isto be reconstituted alongracial lines. The gatesof the future are to beflung open to the op-pressed peoples of theNearer East. That muchis certain. Europe is going east-ward. Just as, duringthe last half of the nine-teenth century, her out-posts pushed southward,ever southward intoAfrica, so now the skir-mish lines of Christian-ity, civilization and com-merce are about to move crusading ancestors. The hoe will supersedethe rifle, the plow will replace the machine-gun. Cooks tourists may, in the not far dis-tant future, wander at will in the Forbid-den Cities of Islam. Barbarism and fanat-icism will retreat before the inexorable ad-vance of civilization. Until the Great War broadened our hori-zon and aroused our imaginations, we Ameri-cans were a peculiarly insular and self-cen-tered people. We took but cursory interest
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POSSIBLE DIVISION AND REARRANGEMENT OF THE TURKISH EMPIRE 403 404 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS in the politics and problems of other coun-tries or events on other continents, for ourminds and our energies were concentratedon the development of the great, rich landwhich stretches from Sandy Hook to theGolden Gate. Western Asia was to most ofus a vague and legendary region until ourinterest was awakened by the exploits ofMaude in Mesopotamia and AUenby inPalestine. Armenia we had always thoughtof in terms of massacres; an Armenian wasto most of us a dark-complexioned foreignerwho peddled embroideries and rugs. Arabiawe conceived as an expanse of yellow sand(in the geographies of our school-days it wasalways colored yellow) across which bandsof Bedouins in flowing burnouses scurried onrocking camels. Syria meant figs; Anatolia,rugs; Babylonia, of course, evoked picturesof Belshazzar and the hanging gardens. Mesopotamia we had seen mentioned, insome of the more serious magazines, in con

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